{"title": "East of the Chesapeake", "covers": [1509139], "subject_places": ["Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)", "Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)"], "subjects": ["Biography", "Childhood and youth", "Farm life", "Farm life, united states", "United states, biography"], "subject_people": ["William H. Turner (1935-)"], "key": "/works/OL511686W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL34346A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"East of the Chesapeake continues the themes and story lines of Chesapeake Boyhood, William Turner's delightful account of growing up on the lower Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake during the years following the Great Depression. Here are Turner's singular accounts of curious characters, changing seasons, natural wonders, and small-town dramas. Once again, he brings the people and landscape of rural Virginia to life as no one else can.\n\nHis own drawings illustrate the stories, and they, too, win us over with their honesty and charm.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T04:07:37.164723"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-11T01:33:16.717598"}}